by Splabman | Dec 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
There needs to be a new idea or a more fleshed out idea of what a human being is in reference to sharing the biosphere with other life. – Peter Berg This is part of what essentially is Peter Berg’s parting message. It was given two months before his death...
by Splabman | Dec 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
It was a long day, but one filled with vision and inspiration last Saturday (Dec 6, 2014) as I was part of a Board Retreat for CascadiaNow! I agreed to be Board President when asked by founder Brandon Letsinger and it is exciting to be part of a social movement to...
by Splabman | Dec 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Having finished back in May a series of poems inspired by the classic Japanese anthology, I come to it now after letting the poems sit for a while, and re-read them in the spirit of seeing how my work is firmly rooted in what Peter Berg called...
by Splabman | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
It is a testament to the good of social media that an event like Seattle/St. Paul, which happened last night in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a poet I’d never met before, Mark Fleury, could happen. My policy on Facebook is to agree to a friend request if the person...
by Splabman | Dec 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve just finished the new book on the Essential Writings of Peter Berg. The Biosphere and the Bioregion is the title and it is so prophetic and visionary, I am compelled to cull through all my marginalia to have a record of what’s going through my mind at...
by Splabman | Nov 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Was inspired by seeing Jarret Middleton’s thoughts about the lack of charges brought against Darren Wilson, the officer in Ferguson, Missouri, who fatally shot Michael Brown, a young black man whose crime was shoplifting. His thoughts came out to nearly 1,400...
